I like how it's expressed in Dirk Gently - "Schrödinger's Cat isn't a real experiment. It's just an illustration for arguing about the idea [...] Schrödinger

I like how it's expressed in Dirk Gently - "Schrödinger's Cat isn't a real experiment. It's just an illustration for arguing about the idea [...] Schrödinger put forward this idea to illustrate what he thought was absurd about quantum theory." -- Douglas Adams